Solar/EM energy harvester for autonomous operation of a monitoring sensor platform

Niotaki, Kyriaki; Giuppi, Francesco; Georgiadis, Apostolos; Collado, Ana

doi:10.1017/wpt.2014.6

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“…Recently, scientists, in order to increase the possibility to provide energy to objects and to provide more options for autonomy, are working on the development of mixed mode energy scavengers [11], combining heterogeneous scavengers working independently one to each other.…”

Section: Wpt and Eh For Iotmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of the present technologies concurrently contributing to the implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm: RFID, Green Electronics, WPT and Energy Harvesting

Roselli

Mariotti

Mezzanotte

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet)

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This paper summarizes the most important technologies, concurrently participating to build the technological platform needed for a realistic implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. At the present state of the evolution of IoT, these technologies are mostly: Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID), Green Electronics (GE), Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) and Energy Harvesting (EH). This contribution briefly explains the reason for that, and shows a collection of scientific contributions which can be seen as examples. The deep description of the proposed systems can be found in the relative referenced papers.

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Section: Wpt and Eh For Iotmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of the present technologies concurrently contributing to the implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm: RFID, Green Electronics, WPT and Energy Harvesting

Roselli

Mariotti

Mezzanotte

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet)

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“…A recent example is shown in Fig. 1 where a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) cavity backed slot is integrated with two amorphous silicon a-Si solar cells with a plastic protective cover on top [20], while a textile solar antenna was demonstrated in [21]. Inkjet printing fabrication has led to several novel implementations of RF circuits and antennas, and an example of an active antenna implementing a UHF beacon signal generator powered by solar cells placed on top of the ground layer of a folded slot antenna is shown in Fig.…”

Section: Multi-technology Harvesters (Thermoelectric Antennas Solar mentioning

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“…Solar SIW slot antenna[20] (left), and inkjet-printed active oscillator antenna powered by solar cells[22] (right).…”

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Energy harvesting for autonomous wireless sensors and RFID's

Georgiadis

2014

2014 XXXIth URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS)

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Energy harvesting technologies are receiving significant interest from industry and academia as they provide a foundation, an enabling technology towards the realization of 'zero-power' wireless sensors and implementing the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. The principles of commonly used energy harvesting technologies such as solar, piezoelectric, thermal and electromagnetic are listed and design challenges and novel technologies and materials, such as paper, textiles, and large volume inkjet printing fabrication are presented. Hybrid-multiple technology harvesters are discussed and the development of low profile antennas and rectennas, integrating an electromagnetic radiator with solar cells and a thermoelectric generator are presented. Optimal signals suitable for wireless power transmission are discussed.

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“…On the other hand, ambient RF energy harvesting offers a relatively low energy density of some uW/cm 2 , compared to other power sources (e.g. solar energy or energy from soil [7]), however it can operate in hybrid mode, in conjunction with multiple other sources [8]. Efficiency is an important parameter in a rectifier topology, i.e.…”

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Dual band RF harvesting with low-cost lossy substrate for low-power supply system

Daskalakis¹,

Georgiadis²,

Bletsas³

et al. 2016

2016 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)

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A high efficiency, low-complexity, low-cost rectifier for low-power density and low-power input is analyzed, fabricated and measured. The design consists of a double diode rectifier with operation in the two frequency bands of 900 MHz ISM and FM, simultaneously. Although the design uses a lowcost, lossy FR-4 substrate and a low-complexity rectifier circuit, the RF-to-DC rectification efficiency achieves 14.49% and 27.44% at 868 MHz and 97.5 MHz, respectively, for input power of −20 dBm. Measurement results agree with simulations. The rectifier was connected to a commercial boost converter in order to manage and improve the output power of the rectifier. The endto-end efficiency of the system was calculated to 21% for input power of −15 dBm and frequency of 97.5 MHz, despite the use of a low-cost, lossy substrate.

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Solar/EM energy harvester for autonomous operation of a monitoring sensor platform

Cited by 29 publications

References 12 publications

Review of the present technologies concurrently contributing to the implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm: RFID, Green Electronics, WPT and Energy Harvesting

Review of the present technologies concurrently contributing to the implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm: RFID, Green Electronics, WPT and Energy Harvesting

Energy harvesting for autonomous wireless sensors and RFID's

Dual band RF harvesting with low-cost lossy substrate for low-power supply system

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